(Top journalists decided to stay off the bus in 2012, because, in the words of Jonathan Martin,) What’s the point?
We are just isolated from these folks. The layers and layers of staff, and the caution, is something that I think is detrimental to the process because we just don’t have the chance to see who these folks are as individuals, as humans. I think it’s just a shame.
For me and a lot of reporters who have read all these great books from our predecessors about flying around the country on campaigns and getting to know candidates and their spouses, that just seems like something from a different era. It’s like black-and-white TV in the WiFi era.